Advertising Quote by Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their…

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant…

— Bruce Barton

Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our…

— Iris Smyles

“Appealing to our subconscious emotions rather than our conscious intellects, advertisements are designed to exploit the discontentments fostered by the American dream, the constant…

— Sonia Maasik

Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

— Anonymous

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves -…

— Jaron Lanier

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this,…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what…

— Walter Lippmann

Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable…

— Christopher Lasch

Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will…

— Alain de Botton

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't…

— Kit Williams